Word: central
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...list of luncheons follows: CLUB DATE SPEAKER Worcester* Dec. 30 Thomas Bolles and Peter Frost Washington, D.C. Dec. 28 Roger Robinson and David Henry Eastern Michigan (Detroit) Dec. 28 Henry Lamar Akron, Ohio Dec. 29 " " Central Ohio (Columbus) Dec. 30 " " Dayton, Ohio Dec. 31 " " Rochester, N.Y. Dec. 26 Alex Bell Syracuse, N.Y. Dec. 28 " " Buffalo, N.Y. Dec. 29 " " Eastern New York (Albany) Dec. 30 " " San Diego, Cal. Dec. 17 Norman Shepard Chicago, Illinois Dec. 30 Prof. Franklin Ford Baltimore, Md. Dec. 29 Prof. Reuben Brower Kansas City, Kans. Dec. 23 (no speaker) Denver, Colo. Dec. 28 (no speaker) *dinner meeting...
...picketed by labor racketeers seeking shakedown money out of phony organizational or recognition strikes. Landrum-Griffin's provisions outlaw the shakedown forms of organizational picketing, also prohibit Hoffa from automatically rejecting "hot cargo" from any company with labor troubles. Last week, at a Chicago meeting of his huge Central States Conference, Hoffa declared that he would not only observe the new law's restrictions, but also bitterly laid out a go-it-alone policy as far as all non-Teamster unions are concerned: "Our members will refuse to honor lines set up for organizational or recognition purposes...
Haze of Heat. The land is vast and cruel, running some 2,000 miles from the icy peaks of the Himalayas, in the heart of central Asia, down to the steaming jungles of Cape Comorin, on the Indian Ocean. In summer, wrote Rudyard Kipling, there is "neither sky, sun, nor horizon. Nothing but a brown-purple haze of heat. It is as though the earth were dying of apoplexy." During this furnace season, millions of Indian villagers lie gasping in their mud huts; wells dry up and fields blow away. When the monsoon rains come in the fall, the torrential...
...women who escaped flu, 653 had normal babies and only ten lad malformed children. There was no notable difference in the number of still or premature births. The malformations, concentrated among the women who had had flu in the first three months of pregnancy, were mainly in the central nervous system and included a disproportionate number of cases in which the infant's brain failed to develop...
Beloved Infidel (20th Century-Fox) takes its title and its central situation from Gerold Frank's bestselling biography (TIME, Nov. 24, 1958) of Hollywood Gossipist Sheilah Graham, who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's girl friend during the last sad years of his life as a Hollywood hack. The book pretended, with some authority, to be the hard, straight stuff-novelist on the rocks. But Producer Jerry (The Best of Everything) Wald decided that the stuff was too strong for the customers he was after, and he attempted to water the old Fitzgerald down and sweeten...